Welcome, Guest
Login or Register
Home
« previous next »
Pages: 1 [2]  All   Go Down

Author Topic: laying workers?  (Read 10645 times)

Offline Michael Bush

  • Universal Bee
  • *******
  • Posts: 19917
  • Gender: Male
    • bushfarms.com
Re: laying workers?
« Reply #20 on: June 03, 2011, 02:29:20 am »
>If you had a laying worker hive and placed a screen over it then placed another hive with a good queen over it, would her presence eventually surpress the laying workers.

No, but the pheromones from the open brood would.  The queen is irrelevant.

Logged
My website:  bushfarms.com/bees.htm en espanol: bushfarms.com/es_bees.htm  auf deutsche: bushfarms.com/de_bees.htm  em portugues:  bushfarms.com/pt_bees.htm
My book:  ThePracticalBeekeeper.com
-------------------
"Everything works if you let it."--James "Big Boy" Medlin
Pages: 1 [2]  All   Go Up
« previous next »